prepares to reconvene for its seventh hearing into the attack on the capitol today. focusing on the extremist groups that led the attack. how the committee plans to tie the far right militias to the trump white house. boy, mika, as we look at the united states capitol, which, of course so beautiful. was besieged by terrorists on january 6th. if you call people who try to take something over and brutalize cops and try to destroy american democracy terrorists, i guess it s all a definitional thing. you re really starting to see the impact of these investigations, not just the january 6th investigation, but we re going to be talking this morning about what s going on in georgia. lindsey graham has tried to escape a subpoena because the secretary of state in georgia said they re republicans. secretary of state said his fellow republican lindsey graham called and tried to get him to throw out legal ballots. graham is trying to get out of that. of course he wants to esc
it s how they write their memoirs. those are some of the new excuses from republicans about why donald trump took classified documents home with him to mar-a-lago. there was, though, one of the old ones about hillary clinton. the former president now is previewing his legal plans as he pushes more dangerous rhetoric. also this morning, new polling from nbc news shows americans no longer believe the economy is the most pressing issue facing our country. steve kornacki joins us to break down the numbers and to tell us what is on the minds of americans. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is monday, august 22nd. with us this morning, u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, the great katty kay. katty, taking broadside shots a moment ago at your home country and the technology there. i was deeply concerned by that. i know. i was just hoping no one was listening back home. i think you re okay. we ll redeem ourselves here. okay. let s start with the new nbc news
defined by the defeat of this man, incumbent congressman peter meyer. one of the ten house republicans who voted to impeach trump. and the victory of this woman, tudor dixon, former actress and conservative media figure and now a republican nominee for michigan governor, who scored the last-minute backing of the former president. meanwhile, in arizona, nbc has just projected the republican nominee for attorney general will be abraham hamaday, who was endorsed by trump. trump s pick for arizona secretary of state, mark fincham also sailed for victory, as did his pick for the senate, blake masters who will face democrat mark kelly in november. and arizona s republican house speaker, rusty bowers, who was a star witness for the january 6th committee, lost his state senate race to his trump-backed opponent. but the most closely watched race there is still too close to call. the showdown between trump-backed election denier, kerri lake, and karen taylor robeson. our team is cove
And are released from prison. The scheme in florida and the manhunt is under way for 34yearolds Charles Walker and joseph jenkins. They were released from Franklin Correctional Institution within weeks of each other. But, the Orange County Sheriffs Office only learned about it on tuesday. A judge says someone took his signature and electronically pasted it on bogus release orders. Before that, phony documents for a phony sentence. This was one enterprise to break from jail. In my more than 35 years in the judicial system, i have never seen the state of florida file a motion to correct an illegal sentence. They are saying they were duped by the fraudulent orders. They dont know who did it, but they are investigating. They followed every procedure and protocol we have in place. Those inmates were released based on those court orders we received. They were reviewing records to make sure no other inmates pulled similar tricks. They are in the Orange County area where they have family and f
Discussion, of course, to their domestic agenda. Heres the format for you. Its a 90minute debate and can be divided into six segments of 15 minutes each. Each segment starting with a question followed by twominute answers from the candidates and then a bit of a chat and some discussion. This time theyre going to be seated with the moderator, unlike last weeks town hall and the first debate that was standing behind the podiums. Libya, iran, china, just some of the issues that will come up tonight, no doubt. Were going to break down those issues and whats at stake. Heres White House Correspondent diana keiller, and Foreign Affairs correspondent ellise lavin. Lets start with you, briana. We can expect mitt romney to raise, you know, more questions about the terrorist attack in b benghazi tonight. President obama to portrait mitt romney as unprepared to be a world leader on an international stage. What more do we know about the debate strategy . Yeah, thats exactly what were expecting, mic